The Ones I Like List of 2010 [#9]
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one tree, many muses. After taking some years off while red reigned supreme, blue reinserted itself into my portfolio in 2010, and it did so all by its lonesome, without encouragement or pre-planning. It just barged in, like those blues tend to do, and set a new trend in motion. A trend, I imagine, that will still hold strong as we start the new year.
I was always a “favorite” this or “favorite” that girl. No different today. My favorite movie is Magnolia. Favorite month, October. My favorite food is the avocado. Favorite musician, Paul Simon. Foo Fighters are my favorite…when entertaining subsets. And then…there is blue. When I was growing up, blue was always in the pole position. I imagine it still is (although that darned yellow keeps trying to sway my better sensibility with all its happy, happy and sunshine, sunshine). What I like about blue is its range. Blue has the power to calm, to sadden, to uplift. It has the power to confirm your darkest suspicions and lift your most downtrodden spirits. In my childhood Crayola box, I was partial to Sky Blue. Maybe it was being raised with NASA in my “backyard,” in a community that owned the night sky. Maybe it was because I was destined to be more dreamer than realist, and dreams aren’t heavy, they float upward. Maybe I was always a lover of birds and tree tops and all of those things that flirt with the heavens, just beyond that gorgeous blue. It’s hard to say, really, why one gravitates towards colors and rhythms and all things sensory. But as I mentioned in my earlier post, sometimes the question mark isn’t necessary…or even helpful. Sometimes you process your photos with a blue paintbrush just because.
And sometimes, sometimes you blog about the most random things.
I chose one tree, many muses, the only photo of mine that I have up in my place, as #9 on the countdown because I really worked for it…and because it was loosely inspired by the work of my favorite photographer. From the color to the texture to the crop, it was a creation. The tree, however, well, that beauty was there, at Armand Bayou Nature Center, commanding attention on an otherwise spare winter’s morning. It’s what I always seem to gravitate towards when I have my camera in hand…a good tree. One might say it’s a favorite.
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Two more “blue” favorites that didn’t quite make the list — cardinal and monocle, the latter of which has my favorite title of the year.
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Dining at in 2010: Canopy, Pepper Tree, Maria Selma, Jenni’s Noodle House, Baba Yega, Mogul, Panda Garden and 59 Diner.
